Password Lockout Settings

There are a few simple password management features in Windows XP that will give you that bit of added security.

In Windows XP (and later versions), you can do a few things relating to passwords and logins. You can set minimum password length required, number of login attempts before lockout and the lockout duration. So today we will just look at how you can set the lockout duration and how many login attempts to allow.

The reason for doing this is it stops brute force attackers from attempting multiple logins to determine the password. By setting a lockout duration of x amount of time, it makes things more difficult for hackers/crackers and anyone else that wants to get into your account.

To change the password lockout settings:

• Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy
• Expand the Account Policies folder
• Click on Account Lockout Policy
• You should see the options as in the screenshot below

• Double click on Account lockout threshold
• Now you can set the number of invalid login attemts to allow before locking out
• Click OK or Apply

• You can also set the account lockout duration by double clicking on the Account lockout duration setting
• Here you can specify the time in minutes before another login attempt can occur

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